Bath shower attachment



J. G. PERKINS.

BATH SHOWER ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.2, 1917.

Patented Get. 5, 192(1),

am vm woz NI ED STATES PATENT- oFFIcE.

JOSEPH G. PERKINS, OE BELLEVUE, KENTUCKY, ASSIG-NOR TO ISIDOB. J.MILLER, 0F

CINCINNATI, OHIO.

BATH SHOWER. ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Application filed August 2, 191.7.v Serial No. 184,135.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Josnrrr G. PERKINS, acitizen of the United States, residing at Bellevue, in the county ofCampbell'and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Bath Shower Apparatus, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in bath shower apparatus. One ofits objects is to provide a shower apparatus having a plurality ofshower heads or units, which are independently adjustable to cut oflfthe flow of water at one or more thereof. An-- other object is toprovide an improved adjustable, shower unit with cut off mechanism.Another object is to provide improved simple cut off mechanism forindividual shower units. Another object is to provide an improveddetachable shower apparatus. My invention also comprises certain detailsof form, combination and arrangement, all of which will be fully setforth in the description of the accompanying drawings,- in which;

v Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through a bath tub with myimproved apparatus attached thereto.

Fig. 2 is a sectional detail through the shower tube andvalve mechanism.

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on line 'v v of Fig. 2. i

Fig. 4 is a sectional detail, transversely through the two-way valve.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred embodiments of myinvention in which A represents a bath tub having a hot water supplypipe 2 and a cold water supply pipe 3 both valve controlled and leadingto a common downwardly direction exit 4 to supply water of the desiredtemperature to the tub. Detachably connected by a tight joint to theexit 4 by means of yoke shaped tie rods 5, cross bars 6 and nuts 7 is acoupling member 8 which projects outwardly into the tub and at itsopposite end is provided with a tapered two-way cock 9 to which a waterconduit leads from exit 4 through the coupling member .8. The ports inthe two-way cock are so arranged that when the shower tube 10, which isattached to and moves with the tapered plug of the cock, is in theinclined position illustrated in Fig. 1, the water is directed throughthe central port 10 of the plug to the tube 10 and thence to therespective heads or shower members 14, 15 and 16, and Whenlthe showertube 10 is in the vertical position indicated by dotted line 17, thewater is directed through valve port 9 and downwardly through an exitport 18 into the tub. Thus by regulating the hot and cold water cockswith the shower tube in vertical position water of the desiredtemperature is directed into the tub to fill the same, and no water issupplied through the shower tube. Whenever the shower is required foruse the tube 10 may be moved to the inclined position which directs theshower in the desired direction and avoids throwing water outside of thetub. The shower tube may be readily grasped to move it to verticalposition and out .011? the water supply to tube 10 whenever desired. Theforwardly or outwardly directed coupling member 8 provides forconveniently attaching or detaching the shower relative to any tub andalso provides for moving the tube 10 to a vertical position withoutcontact or interference with the hot or cold water supply cocks on thetub.

In practice it is frequently desirable to utilize the shower from one ortwo of the shower members 14, 15 and 16 only and to cut ofl' the watersupply to the other or others thereof, also it is desirable to be ableto adjust one of said shower members, preferably the member 16 at theend of the shower tube, to different positions of angularity. relativeto the shower tube.

In order to provide for cutting off the individual water supply toshower members 14 or 15 without interfering with the water supply to anyof the others I provide coupling T-members 20 in the pipe or tube 10which are each providedwith a valve seat 21. The rose-heads or othershower members 14 and 15 each have their shanks 22 threaded into oneorifice of the coupling members 20 and a valve 24 to engage, and beforced by the threaded engagement of the shank 22 in the coupling member20 against the valve seat 21 to cut off the water supply to the showermember through the supply port 25. By reason of the reduced neck 26 ofthe shank 22, water supply passages '27 are provided around the neck 26through the coupling members 20 to supbers.

ber, and a shower member having a tubu- The shank of shower member 16 isspherical and seats'in a corresponding recess in the valve casing 31,being held in place therein by means of a threaded cap 32 withsuflicient tension to retain it in any position of angularity to whichit may be adjusted by hand. Threaded into the casing 31 is a valve shank33 having an actuating handle 34, and a valve 35 to engage a valve seat36 formed in the casing 31 and serving to cut ofl the water supply toshower member 16.

The apparatus herein illustrated and described is capable ofconsiderable modification without departing from the principle of myinvention.

' Having described my invention, what I claim is;

1. A shower apparatus comprising a shower tube, a T-shaped couplingmember therein having an internal valve seat opposite the middle port ofsaid coupling memlar shank threaded into the middle orifice of saidcoupling member and provided with a valve to engage said interior valveseat to selectively close the water supply passage to said shower memberwithout closing the passage from one end port .of said coupling memberto its other end port.

2. A shower apparatus comprising a shower tube, one or more T-shapedcoupling members therein each having a valve seat, and one or moreindividual shower members having atubular shank threaded into oneorifice of a coupling member and provided with a valve to engage thevalve seat of the coupling member toclose a water supply passage to saidshower member through its shank In testimony whereof I have aflixed mysignature in the resence of two witnesses.

J SEPH G. PERKINS. Witnesses:

C. W. MILES, \V. THORNTONIBOGERT.

